Rapido Trains RDC 6133, Operating Handbook

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bell (press F1). We’ll say this again: Make sure you have plenty of room in front of and 

behind your RDC and it is not headed for an immovable obstacle or vertiginous drop in 

either direction.

MOTOR HUM

If you run your sound-equipped RDC with the sounds muted, you will notice a distinctive 

hum coming from the motors. This is caused by the Back-EMF, the same Back-EMF which 

was so awesome in the above paragraph. If you are running with the sounds on – it is 

a sound-equipped model, after all – then the hum is not noticeable. If for some reason it 

really bugs you, you can try to turn off the Back-EMF. The guy writing these instructions 

has no idea how to do it because he has never had a reason to run his sound-equipped 

models with the sound turned off. Check the full ESU Select manual, available from the 

Support pages of our web site.

MORE INFORMATION

While addressing the features that most modelers will need for normal operation, these 

instructions have covered just a small number of the many customizable features of 

your ESU LokSound decoder. For advanced users who want to more fully explore the 

capabilities of the decoder we suggest downloading the ESU Loksound Select decoder 

manual. This is available on the RDC page in the Support section of our web site.

LIMITED LIFETIME WARRANTY

We will do our best to solve any problems or issues that you may have with your RDC. 

We recommend that you operate your RDC within a few months of receiving it as we 

will not have an everlasting supply of spare parts. 

If your RDC has any defects that originate from the factory, we will repair your RDC us-

ing new components at our Markham office. Please contact us through our web site or 

using the telephone before sending any models back to us. As well, please bear in mind 

that models shipped from the United States must be sent by mail rather than by courier, 

and must state explicitly on the customs label that the models are being returned under 

warranty. We always return your model with some free stuff to cover your shipping costs. 

It can take up to two weeks for mail to get from the United States to Canada. Our record 

is 91 days from Boston to Toronto. We could have walked there to collect the package 

and been back sooner. Thank you USPS and Canada Post.

There are a number of things that this warranty can not cover. We’ve already gone over 

the bit about reattaching loose parts yourself – don’t be afraid! The hassle of packing up 

a train, going to the post office, waiting a month for it to come back, and then finding 

that something else broke off when we shipped it back to you can be avoided by two